Hangzhou [China], October 3 (ANI): The President of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) Adille Sumariwalla hailed ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, calling him the best athlete that India has produced throughout sporting disciplines.
The ‘Golden Boy’ might be within the highlight on the eleventh day of the continued Asian Games as he’s set to compete within the males’s finals of the javelin throw occasion.
A billion hopes are already using on Neeraj as he bids to take the sphere to defend the gold in males’s javelin from the Jakarta Asian Games.
He turned the primary and solely monitor and subject athlete from the nation to win an Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and topped the rostrum on the World Athletics Championships 2023 to develop into India’s first-ever world champion in any athletics occasion. On the hovering expectations of an aspirational India across the athletes taking part within the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games, the AFI president informed reporters, “Neeraj Chopra has been the best athlete India has ever produced in any sport. No athlete within the historical past of India and even earlier than independence had performances like him.
So please perceive that he’s an icon and everyone needs to see him carry out.”He additional went on to reward the Indian athletes for pulling off outstanding performances in several athletics disciplines.
Sumariwalla identified that India has already crossed the mark of 19 medals in athletics, with nonetheless two days of occasions to go.
“Absolutely, we had promised to give you medals before we left the shores we promised you that we would give you more medals than last time. We have already given you more medals than last time with two days to go and we are happy that the athletes have performed well. We missed on a few more medals narrowly but it is a part of the game so it is fine. We are at 22 medals, we were 19 in the last Asian games so we have already crossed that benchmark,” Sumariwalla added.
India will look to extend their medal tally of twenty-two with Neeraj spearheading the Indian problem on Wednesday.
The ace javelin thrower might be in motion at 4:30 pm IST. (ANI)